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Show CACHE AMERICAN. LOGAN. UTAH (Tamp oa h!a llrsd and alt around waiting for ama Soprano two hundred tulles away to hurst Into Song Not much I lle wanted to crank up the old Talking Machine and put In a big Needle and get a mesa of Rag Thu that would rattle the The Fable of the Monarch of West- ern Hemisphere B W Season of Daring Color Schemes How I Broke Into The Movies Dj CHERIE NICHOLAS i luda. (A So he passed up the new Wonder of the WorhL When the Addict told him that Improvements were being made and the Amplifier a . tun ttnu Imi4 learning to bring the Stuff In so WILL be remembered that Mr. that It sounded like Something and Jelby stood to front of the Drug the Programs were better, then Mr. Store In lixiu and said thut Jeltiy laughed scornfully and said when he started tonic here behind there would he nothing doing, si he Horne he knew he ould get there had Inreatlguted and decided Hint ml. you didn't hare to the Plaything would ncter he more crunk up a Hone and It neer had than a Passing Fad. Tire '1 rouble. Yes, Indeed, Mr. Even when the Newspaper beJelby u tllck enough to tee thut gan to have Special feirtment the llornelest Carriage u and merely with funny looking Picture a futile Kxerlnient mid countless ponderous Explanations and long Generation outd program. Mr. Jelby was nnmove-yet to srrlte huie to d'iend UMin Old Dobbin. Then, at a Party one night he Now lie a mt to tinp the Speedomraw a new fangled one thut had eter In the face If It doeu t remitBulli and Dial all over it and ter ft l and when he goet around a looked like the Apparatus Hint I .molt Party huddled In a Kilt he might he ued for purposes of Elec, doe It on Ttvo Wheelt and shouts troeutlon. It had a Iud Sieaker limnlling (Turk at the Slow IVket which looked Ilk Ihe entrance to who tire Impeding Truffle. The proud the Iloosac TunneL It wna Mr. Jeltiy who optow-- the Owner did a little Jiggling and nut fomi.itioii of t lie Country Cliiti, al- came a Niagara of Grand Cera. lowing thut Golf wnt an effeminate The Operator said that Boston wna I'lterfclon Intended for White Itnb-hi- t coming In very well. Mr. Jelby and inmates of the Old People's couldn't believe It was Boston. It Home, hul a ead Imitation of Some- sounded too nearby. Then Ihe quit thing to Do for a roll u at Athlete erlng Crank who ws at the Wheel who had been brought up on bate declared that he could get Hast ball and Draw Poker. And now Inga, Nebraska, and he did so. He Mr. Jelby haa more Clubs than HasaP! that Atlanta was a Cinch for gen and at Night his Wife will hear him. and In two seconds Mr. Jelby him murmuring In his sleep, "The was listening to sn Educational head down and come bark slowly." Talk In Atlanta. The Subject Ma- t WHATEVER you do, he careful You know, one of these terrible tter was not very thrilling, hut In VV Evidently this Is the message Chios. getting Atlanta the fcTerlsh Fan which fashion alma to convey for Ii, how he ridiculed the folks had proven that his old Machine the coming months. It's like teewho put In their time Dancing I He had Selectivity. ing things through Imwas one of the first to denounce glasses to look st the gay spring That word Selectivity" Jnz. He Mild thut the old fashioned pressed Mr. Jelby. He naed It Next clothes which are out on stjle pa No kaleidoscope could do Waltz and Mazurka hud some sense Morning when he went Into a De- rade. to them and he even defended the partment Store to purchase a So better than designers of lids day hop skip and Jump Polka, but the pemln, the same aa he had heard and age are doing In this matter of producing unexpected yet withal modern Trots, and Toddles and at the Party. beautiful color effects Walks had no lielallon to Getting In Good With the Neighbor. startlingly You gel Ihe Idea first of all from Art and were merely lazy The Salesman said there was no the new tailored suits, so many of Forms of Indoor Exercise. And now need of spending all that money. which combine plaids, checks or Mr. Jelby wants to go out every Night For $43 he could gel a dandy little strlet with bright monotones. For and wriggle until the Saxophone I'azola which would pick up almost Instance, an ensemble la apt to be ami out. waiters the Players pass any station and provide many worked oul with a tartan plaid wool begin putting the chairs on the Tahappy Hours for the Jeltiy Tribe. In green, vivid blue and orange bles. The dandy little Pazola lasted combining with. a plain hluu ding He Is the Kind thut will make Just two Sessions. When Jelby onnl weave. Other equully as Fun of a new style or some novel found that It brought In only contrasts could be recited Diversion until It becomes Univerfrom Omaha and not hy the hundreds sal and then he will wake up some Squeak Flicker from Los Angeles, he was The new giddily striped and Morning nnd discover It with a Cry off It for Life. He went to an Explaldcd taffetas, likewise of Surprise. He wouldn't wear and laid In a are working wonders In the those Itagg.v Trousers until after pert that had to be turned way of contributing vital color to had been h.v all the they adopted If It Isn't a giant sideways when brought Into the street clothes. Walters nt the Ron Ton Cafe. house. After It was all keyed up sized bow of plaid taffeta tied at Those Who Get Maddest Fall then Mr. the throat then, perehnnee, the Jelby worked out his Hardest. and brought In the neighbors. blouse Is of gay taffeta with the His offspring got many a raspy and coat lining saying ditto or possibly Now he sits nt the Grilling Just a short time ago be- Jumps from Springfield, Mass., to all three will flaunt their colorful cause they wasted so much time Dullas, Texas, via Chicago and St scheme before your eyes Then on a prevailing Type of Idiocy Louis, tie is still strong on Se- there are the new smart tweed known as the Cross Word Puzzle. lectivity. Just as the Guests are travel suits of the swagger variety He advanced the highly original beginning to enjoy WEAF, he dem which take on a refreshing this sea Opinion that It didn't make any dif- onstrates his versatility by hopping son's aspect because of their alii ference how many letters were In a to WI.S and as soon as they begin ance with fancy checks Sometimes Certain word or what the last three to sit up and listen to WLS with It la the 6klrt wldch Is of the check. Letters might be or what the Word eyes aspnrkle, be shows off again meant. If the new Craze was go- by working on his Prize Stunt ing to tench folks a lot of new namely, trying to get Mexico City, RETURN OF FRINGE In the last month he has picked Words, he was agin It, because most AND CAPES HAILED of them knew too many words alup over 800 stations and never retoo nnd used them ready frequent- mained over eight seconds cn any When fringe la out, II la very ly. For the distracted Listeners very much out, but when It Is In Resides, after you had solved one. the Fool Thing out to all the cor- this Life has become Just a series we are once more reminded of that ners nnd had used up a couple of of unfinished Ballads, Interrupted little girl with the curl At the Erasers, what had you really done Orchestral Selections and dislocated moment, fringe Is Just different to make the World brighter and Operas. The Neighbors have called enough to set one over the a meeting and there Is no Question idea of wearing It, particularly if happier and better? One day he happened to pick up as to what will happen to Mr. Jelby. it happens to be one's first fringed one of the Teasers and began to The only Problem now Is to dispose frock. fool with It, In a Spirit of Conof the Rndy. They do say that shawls are on MORAL: Every new Accomplish- their way back, and while there is tempt The first Horizontal Word In six Letters meanwas something ment should be practiced in Secret no law that says shawls must be ing to arrive or depart or go up for the first Nine Months. fringed, so many of them are, when an Alley, or something like that. one gets to dreaming about those Ton know, one of those Short Ones Great Minds That Saw castles In Spain, one Is bound to that a Small Child who Is mentally conjure up fringed shawls as well Blessing in Adversity as defective should guess In Three Secfringed dresses. Yet the ar However much like pessimists, onds or whatever happens to be rangement of the little shawl or After two hours Mr. Jelby Schopenhauer and Hartmann, may would you call It a cape? could Bogey. was up on the Table with the news- rail at the suffering, as distinct hardly be described as dashing, an paper under one Knee, gnashing from the sin, that Is In the world, adjective one usually associates his Teeth and rubbing the thing out It is an Incontestable fact of ex- with anything of Spanish Insplra for the 47th time. Those who get the perience that suffering can fashion Hon. These shoulder shawls are maddest fall the hardest He went human character as nothing else for a Spanish woman when she is can. Bacon and Shakespeare are not carrying a rose In her teeth or out and bought the largest Dictionary to be had, also a Book of Syn- no mean authorities where a knowl- being fascinating according to the onyms, an Atlas, Whos Who, and edge of human nature Is concerned; old Spanish enstom. But when she with takes oft that cape she gets right And and we are all familiar the History of the World. now, If he stays up late enough he Shakespeares Sweet are the uses back Into character I can worry out a dinky Little One of adversity, while Bacon forcibly of about Thirty Words which the says, "Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the Stripes and Checks Due Children cleaned up before startThat misery for Run of Popularity Movies. blessing of the New. ing for the Since you have a correct line on does not make all virtuous, says Itll be pretty difficult for yon to experience too dodge the responsibility of getting This nigged and typical American Doctor Johnson, Citizen, you will understand that clearly Informs us; but it Is no less checks this spring (any but rubber) the Radio had him marked as a Vic- certain of what virtue there Is, mis- and also stripes as the season goes When ery produces far the greater part along. tim from the very start. While we could give you the first crude Outfits were being These are not the words of morose bushel of statistics covering the men of of but thoughtful names of ultra-chl- c women who arc advertised, and a few Amateurs fanatics, were building their Own Sets, and the world. And an equally Impar- buying checks and stripes, we wont. sitting around for Hours wearing tial modern moralist makes the humanitys name, burden yon s and trying to strain a striking observation that "the old- Let It suffice that Luclle Paray In few connected Sounds through the er the men grow In life, the more her mid-se- a son collection In Pari Buzzing Effects, It was then that work becomes their real play, and emphatically showed her approval J. R. and that Jupiter In heaven Is going Mr. Jelby showed utter Scorn for suffering their real work. Once he visited Illingworth. the whole Game. ( through Virgo, which means stripe a Bug who was working hard to rad checks wiU be good until Sep He even conWedding Ring Long Used cember of next year, at least get some Results. The origin of the wedding ring is sented to put on the Receivers and finally he heard Something that unknown. The Egyptians were prob- Bonbon Effects Shewn in Orchesably the first to use rings and In sounded like a three-piecLatest Fluffy Blouses tra playing at the bottom of a Well their hieroglyphics a circle repreThe Romans nsed The Fact that sents eternity. In the next Block. Blousemakers are Introducing the the music was being played In Pitta a plain Iron ring, which was placed softer notes In the most utterly burgh did not greatly excite Mr. npon the finger of the bride by the feminine types that can be Imagthe Among He said It sounded almost bridegroom. ined. Jelby. the groom gave a pledge While not strictly new for spring tlrat far away. or wed to the bride at the be- (since It was launched last fall but No Passing Fads for Jelby. He admitted that possibly one trothal and this pledge was a ring not generally adopted), the fluffy' Certain Kick out of lis- placed on the right hand. It was blouse Involves such bonbon effect could get worn on the right hand until the as sheer silks, candy pastels and tening to an Imperfect Phone Message which was wedding, when It was changed to rowa of baby width valenclenne being received without the help of a the other. It la recorded that the lace ruffled, and applied In allovet wedding ring was used by Chris- patterns. It Is the lingerie 190) But when he wanted enWire. blouse to the nth degree. tertainment be didn't want to put tians as early as 800 A. D. multi-colore- Terpsl-cborea- n scarf-prints- Key-Boar- Ear-Muff- , I A Long-distanc- DIDN'T break Into Hie movies. LOUISE 1 bright-colore- Bv t'HFRIE NICHOLAS It seems that Alpine playgrounds are lending inspiration for present-da- fashions. You can detect In the costume here picsmart about-iowtured the Influence of the brief litwaist-deptJacktle ets which Tyrolean men wear when mountain climbing. Then, too, the Jaunty beret with Its lerky tuft of colorful felt at Its top crown looks as If the original of Its kind may have been worn by some gay moun talneer, In the picturesque Alps This beret and sleeveless Jacket are of pastel blue felt, worn with a knitted frock. n double-breaste- h tailor-finishe- d Q. 1833. Western Newspaper Union. New Worsted Twills in T&ns and Blues Popular - We art headed for a suit spring and, with the confident news that suits will be good, comes the prediction that a first choice will be the classic tailleur. Fabrics take their cue from the silhouette and are more mannish than ever. Most advanced In feel Ing are Hie worsted twills In tan and blue that look positively old fashioned they are so new. Nelli Part of Colorados Frpr! $24,000,000 National Oaofraphle Woclaijr, Ifenric. Ua!)lutoa U C.-fcf additional primitive bava just been set aside by the federal government In the mountains of Colorado to serve as vacation regions for those who wish to enjoy outing In ths real wilderness. The designation haa been made ao that there will remain, even after further development of highways and railways parts of the rugged mountains untouched by the hand of man, a region free from concrete, steel, and even the wires of power lines and telephones Each of the districts will In addition be a natural preserve for wild animal life. Seventy-fivyears ago all of Colorado was a wilderness through which only a handful of trappers had wandered. The region which Is now the state constituted a real harrier. Ita vast eastern plains formed a typical part of the Great American desert, that geographic libel thrust onto American maps hy pioneers, there to stay for two generations And beyond the desert" rose an Immense rampart of lnienptrnb!e peaks with barren, rocky crowns Appalling lights they were to men who had grown up among the friendly, rounded verdure blanketed mountains of the East So It came about that the early rush of trade and emigration that beat out paths to the West passed Colorado by. Its mountain harrier split this westward faring tide of humanity as a huge bowlder In midstream cleaves the waters of a river. The Santa Fe trail turned to the south, traversing only the southeast corner of the area that was to become Colorado. The covered waIn gons of emigrants Oregon-bounthe early forties, the great hegtra of thousands of Mormons in '47 and 48, and the rush of the California s passed chiefly to the north. Save for a handful of white trappers, Colorado was left to Its few bands of wandering savages. But not for long. Gold, always a magnet for men, dragged a horde of fortune seekers to the edge of the mountains almost over night In 58 and '59, and soon sent restless prospectors with picks and pans scurrying like ants over the whole mountain area. They found the mountain region was not a land of arctic waste and Icy solitudes. On the slopes of peaks were noble forests; between were smiling valleys with grassy meadows. "Desert Now a Rich Region. Here and there the valleys widened Into spacious parks. Streams gurgled on every side, alive with fish. The forests teemed with game. Into this land of unexpected beauty trickled the van of the emigrants, some to find other goods than gold. The barrier bad had Its first real breach. The desert now Is a land of growing crops and fat cattle, crisscrossed by highways and railroads. Farther west the vigorous pioneers and their brothers In spirit who have followed after have thrust railways through gorges, even hanging them on artificial shelves from sheer precipices. They have gouged their way through the Continental divide and lesser ranges to construct long tunnels; and over the great sea of mountains, along the routes of Indian trails and the crude early roads of the miners, that clung precariously to steep slopes, they have flung an amazing network of modern highways. Now, on any summers day, on the heights which early pessimists called cheerless polar solitudes, one may see the gayly colored frocks of women and children fluttering from scurrying automobiles. They belong to visiting family parties, on bent, who are whisked over the mountain roads In a continuous stream. The once Impassable mountains are a fair mark now for the wheezlest flivver. The story of Colorados swift development In the short space of one lifetime Is crammed with romance, tragedy, and high adventure, with strokes of good fortune and 111, as are few chapters In the national chronicle. One day the region was raw, virtually untouched by civilization. The next, almost, men were starting to make a state out of thin mountain air and dusty sagebrush flats ; were selling town lots at auction; Issuing newspapers ; building homes. THREE forest-- Wallace Beery. ary of 3 a week wore off, but 1 stuck with the Job for two years. Then I did a little serious thinking. No, that Is not one of my comedy gags. I really do think seriously now and then. I remember how entranced all of the people in my borne county In Missouri had been by my voice In hog calling contests. There must have been some cause for that, I reasoned. So I went to New York to try out my voice on a new audience. There I was told I had a good singing voice and was given a place in Henry Savage's musical comedy organization. I stuck to this phase of the show business for several years and became Savage's star comedian. Then came my Introduction Into I was playing with a the movies. musical company In Chicago when Henry McRae Webster, director general of the Essanay Film company, saw me. I don't know what he thought and I am perfectly willing not to know. It might be vanity. Anyway, he cornered me after the show, and by the time he got through talking I was a moving picture player. I started to say actor but that wouldnt be correct For what did Webster do but deck me out In skirts nnd make a housemaid out of me. I havent liked them since skirts, I mean. Still, wearing skirts and a long blond wig bad Us compensations. For one thing, I could Uve In one place and I could have my evenings free. I played most every sort of comedy role with Essanay and then came a real break for me. I was sent to the West Coast There I Joined the Keystone organizaHon and played for a year In Sennett comedies. Again I missed the extra player grind but I was given most every sort of part You might say that by this time I had broken into the movies, but it was not until after I had returned from a trip to Japan, where I took a company to make a series of pictures, that I feel I actually did that I was given the dramatic role of the villain In Marshall Nellans Unpardonable Sin, and the critics and public were kind enough to say that I made a real good bad man. It seemed for a while then that I was doomed to be a villain for the rest of my days. I played all sorts of heavy parta and had Just about decided that I couldn't be anything but a rogue on the screen no matter how bad I wanted to be good. Then a break of luck came ont of a clear sky, and with Ray Hatton, I enjoyed playing In a long series of comedy pictures, among them an air picture which made of me a real aviation enthusiast. Two of my latest parts were In The Champ," and Grand Hotel," and I am grateful to the public and critics for their approval of my work in these plays ll COMSTOCK Csahman of ths boisterous, red days of the Alaskan gold rush cornea the ator; of Nellis Cash man, woman sourdough, queen of ths mines, who could mush ber way behind th dogs over endless miles of trackless snow with lha best of them, and gained mors gold to abow for It than most. Ao old maid was Neills, hy ber own definition. She needed no man bout to help ber wbeo aba under took a man's Job. Nellie bad come West with ber family in 1803, Then ths wanderlust seized ber. WiUi a party of six men, adventurers all. ha went to San Francisco. Hera the flip of a coin aent them north. At Ylrtoiia, British Columbia, the learned that tha acurvy was spread Ing disaster among tha miners In tha Casslar district. With her tlx followers and as many men more, and with 1.090 pounds of supplies and medicine, aha went to tha resent It wa a twenty aeven day trip on snowsboea. When news of ber undertaking reached a neighboring mlltsry post, tha commaoder was so aura Nellis could not survive be sent a detail of soldier to tha mines to bring bark her body for Christian burial." Nellla beard they were coming and climbed ft tree to watch their approach. Such was ber success st stamping out ths senrvy that Nellis spent two years oear the mines. In 1870 ha returned to tha states snd opened a store at Tombstone, Aria. Hers shs prospered and was ablo to stake several of Arizona's present millionaires on tbs gamble they would find gold In the mines then being developed near Tombstone. Nellie seemed to have settled down. But In 1897 word of ths discovery of gold In Alaska summoned ber IrSbe was resistibly north again. among the first to reach Dawson, and subsequently mushed Into the Interior, prospecting and stakShe Is said to bavo ing out claims. realized over one million dollars from ber claims on Bonanza creek. During tha World war ahe secured the aid of Ovt citizens of Wiseman, which sbe then made ber home, and started south to enlist as a Red Cross nurse. Before she reached the "outside, however, the war was over. In 1921, when she was a woman of seventy, Nellie made her last trip to the States, 4S0 miles of It, the distance between Nolan and Fairbanks, hy dog sled. Nellie Casbman died In 1925 and Is burled In Victoria. OCT minded d JACKET OF FELT Heroines I skirt As to skirt and sweater schemes, hey fairly hit Hie eye with their riot of color. When II comes to simple daytime frocks of wearable type, most every costume Is worked out In mul color of ways. The llluo (ration tclli the story In part as to bow some of Hie odor problems are solved. At most every turn the eye Is greeted with a blouse of plnld or a bow or a girdle of some such. The model to the left conveys the idea. Nary with white Is almost outrivaling black with white for spring. The costume centered Is done In navy and white. Black with turquoise la the color combination for the model pictured to the right Formnl modes likewise yield to the mania of color which Is taking possession of the fashionable world At Paris restaurants and night clubs a great deal of white la being velvet worn with Jackets or perhaps a white gown will have vivid red velvet strap which develop Into a huge bow at the hark. Patou creates an en chanting formal which Involves trl color of pule lime green, dark olive and a touch of ripe raspberry. Even the newest lace gowns are worked with Ihe Idea that two col ors are better than one. 6. 1831. Western Newspaper Union. American By as drafted Into them. 1 can't thluk of anything worse than play Ing lb part of a Swedish housemaid. And that la !h first part I ever had In moving picture. 1 cant tell shout tb hardships I endured at an extra because I never played as one. Sometimes 1 think that Is sn awful drawback to my career, not being aids to glv one of those successful yarn of how I labored through weary year as an extra before getting my first But anyhow, I ran tell of part. hsrdshli I went through In strug-glln- g about before the earners In aklrta before I graduated from the housemaid role, and I don't know but that has an extra's tribulations outclassed any way you take It It didn't take me lung to realize that I wanted to get Into the show business, I derided that when I saw my first circus. Consequently I left home and Joined the Rlngllng Brothers' circus when I was sixteen years old. Yon see, I got Into moving pictures through a process of elimination. I tried out other branches of the show business before I found the one I wanted to stick with. The of being guardian to Then sgaln II Is the Jacket or cape a herd novelty of clrrns elephants at a aal- which pose checks over the tweed e Anglo-Saxon- a Herman By WALLACE BEERY By CF.ORCE ARE IT Colorado Sfcrt) forty-niner- bare-toppe- d g Sogsr-Bss- Crop. t churches, saloons, and theaters; organizing stage-coaccompanies; talking politics I Good Motor Roads. As you explore Colorado's mountain region, rich silks In gold sod superb scenery, you find excellent motor roads penetrating th roughest terrain. The state's mountain highway system has opened up this region of tumbled peak only In recent year. Twenty year ago the state' summer land consisted alfoothill most exclusively of th country and the eastern slopes of the front range. Now, with four excellent main highways crossing the Continental divide and with a network of minor roads and trails available. Increasing numbers of the holiday crowds are puslilng Into the back country, where the scenic beauties are more marked. Gold was only the curtain-raise- r for the amazing drama of minerals that has unfolded In Colorado. Sliver was discovered In paying quantities six years after the gold rush. Four yean later. In 1868, more ounces of silver were produced than gold, and tlda has been the case ever since. When Leadvllle's bonanza silver mines came Into heavy production. In 1879, the dollnr value of the silver mined each year actually passed that of gold. Colorado had become primarily a silver state. One reason for the tremendous production of silver In Colorado an average of more tlian 300 tons of It a year Is the complex nature of the state's ores. Many contain mixtures of gold, sliver, copper, lead Thus silver has been a and zinc. In numerous properties and has often paid the freight for gold. Tin and aluminum, cadmium and cobalt, manganese, mercury, and molybdenum, antimony and arsenic, zinc and zircon dip almost where you will Into the alphubet of minerals and you will find substances mined or mlnable In Colorado. Some deposits are awaiting a "turn In economic conditions before they can be touched. Others have had their day. Just now Colorado Is sitting on top of the molybdenum world. A mine at Climax, near Leadville, Is turning out ore that produces each year several million pounds of this rare metal that makes steel of our steel age tougher, stronger and harder. From this one mine comes more s of the entire world than output of molybdenum. Vanadium, another rare and valuable metal used In steel manufacture. Is flowing from a mine at Rifle, In western Colorado. This Is one of the largest vanadium mines In existence and of the world supply. yields Beside precious and rare metals, coal may seem a grimy Interloper, but It is mineral king of Colorado. It passed gold a few years ago. of a billion Close to dollars worth has been dug during the states life. Saved by Irrigation. Irrigation was the savior of ColoMost of the treasure seekrado. ers who went out In '59 and '60 had only the desire to collect gold quickIt was ly and return to the East believed that the country could not support a permanent population. But a few men planted gardens In the river bottoms, led water to them In crude ditches, and obtained astonishing yields. groups built larger ditches at higher levels and threw up diversion dams. Development has gone on until now every one of the many streams that flow from the mountains Is taken bodily over by Irrigators as soon as It reaches the foothills. As one drives through the highly developed Irrigated region north and west of Denver, one comes every few miles to great factories of steel and glass, each dominated by a tall smokestack. These, one learns, are one of the fruits of IrIn them millions of tons rigation. of beets that grow In the surrounding fields are turned each year Into hundreds of millions of pounds of In 1930 Colorado factories sugar. produced nearly a third of all the sugar produced In the United States. This white, crystalline gold from Colorados plains has been worth In excess of $50,000,000 In a single year, more than ten times the value of the yellow gold that was dug li 1931 from the mountains. four-fifth- one-flft- h three-quarte- " Grace Parsons first long distance ride In American history was made long before the days of Paul Revere, and by a woman. And while the feat of Paul Revere has been given wide publicity, has been dramatized, poetized, burlesqued, the career of Grace Parsons, heroine of the days when Pennsylvania was still frontier and rife with Indian warfare, remains shronded In mystery. We know that she lived In Easton, In Northampton county, Pennsylvania, the daughter of an English cobbler, who migrated to this country In 1719. With the outbreak of the French and Indian wars Pennsylvania, still a border state, was plunged Into the horrors of massacre and pillage, Tbesettlers lived Inconstant terror of the red men lurking in the surroundOne day word was ing forests. brought to Easton of the massacre of Gnaden Huten In the Lehigh valley, not so many miles away, and the prediction that the Indians, spurred onward by their horrible success here, were bent on further raids. Panic descended npon Easton. Every resident who could deserted the town, transporting hla family and household goods through the wilderness to safety In PhiladelOnl; William Parsons and phia. his family, and a few other settlers, mostly older men and women and children, remained In the defenseless town. With neither stockade for refuge, nor ammunition, their only hope of survival lay In getting a messenger through to Philadelphia with an appeal for aid. No man able to make the Jonrney could Grace Parsons volunbe spared. teered to take the message. From the tense moment at which she set out from ber fathers house, horseback, on her perilous Journey, Grace Parsons name disappears from historic record. No inspired writer found time In thoso days of turmoil to set dowD the details of her lone ride through the trackless wilderness, alive with menacing Indians, to reach her goaL No poet has sung her bravery In tripping couplets. We do have letters, however, which relate how word of the plight of the little band remaining In Easton was received two days and two nights later at the military headquarters In Philadelphia, and record that the needed arms and troops were subsequently dispatched and reached the harassed town. But the Indians, changing their minds, neglected to attack Easton after all I ft 1S3X. Wiotira Newspaper Unto THE very |